dovecot lda invalid user settings

[CJ Keist]

I'm now dealing with issue with some users on mbox getting invalid user 
settings in /var/adm/messages.  /var/log/syslog has:

Jul 10 11:21:42 mail2 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] lda(ejames): 
Error: user ejames: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage 
autodetection failed with home=/top/academic/Atmos/people/ejames/home
Jul 10 11:21:42 mail2 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.crit] lda(ejames): Fatal: 
Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

I checked this users home directory and the mail folder is there and 
permissions are all correct.


I'm running in a mixed mbox and Maildir environment. I read to support 
this environment you simply comment out the mail_location lines in 
10-mail.conf file which will force dovecot to auto detect what format a 
user is using.  This worked fine in dovecot 1.2.12, but seems to failing 
here.

 root@mail2:/userM/mail-services/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot -n
# 2.2.13: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc
auth_failure_delay = 5 secs
auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5
auth_worker_max_count = 3000
base_dir = /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/
default_client_limit = 30000
default_process_limit = 5000
disable_plaintext_auth = no
hostname = mail2.engr.colostate.edu
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
environment mailbox date ihave duplicate
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
passdb {
  driver = passwd
}
postmaster_address = c...@engr.colostate.edu
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/lib/postfix/private/auth {
    mode = 0666
  }
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  user = root
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
  }
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
service pop3-login {
  inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 110
  }
  inet_listener pop3s {
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem
userdb {
  args = blocking=yes
  driver = passwd
}
protocol imap {
  mail_max_userip_connections = 50
}
protocol lda {
  mail_plugins = sieve
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_max_userip_connections = 50
}

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C. J. Keist                     Email: cj.ke...@colostate.edu
Systems Group Manager           Solaris 10 OS (SAI)
Engineering Network Services    Phone: 970-491-0630
College of Engineering, CSU     Fax:   970-491-5569
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301

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